'', served as inspiration in the creation of the character Palpatine.
Origins Note: All dates in this article are in the BBY/ABY format. This is a fictional in-universe dating system centred on the
Battle of Yavin in
Episode IV: A New Hope in which the first Death Star is destroyed. BBY is Before the
Battle of Yavin; ABY is After the Battle of Yavin.
The Twilight of the Republic The Galactic Empire is born out of the collapsing
Galactic Republic; the rise of the empire wasn't sudden but instead unfolded gradually, step by step with one power grab after the next. However, its seeds of
decadence are planted and nurtured by the Sith over a period of centuries, that bore fruit during the
Clone Wars, the epic war between the Republic and the separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems (CIS) depicted in
Episode II: Attack of the Clones and
Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Palpatine's ascension came with the final layer of poison instilled into a governmental system on the brink of collapse. Because of the hubristic Jedi, the corrupt senate and a civil war, Palpatine was seen by many as a savior and is easily able to take near-complete control of the Republic. In
Episode I: The Phantom Menace, amid a trade dispute and invasion of his homeworld of
Naboo, Senator Palpatine convinces Queen
Padmé Amidala to call for a
vote of no confidence in Supreme Chancellor of the Republic
Finis Valorum.
Palpatine is elected Supreme Chancellor in Valorum's place. Coruscant was introduced in
Timothy Zahn's then-
canon novel
Heir to the Empire. It made its film debut in the special edition of
Return of the Jedi. Inspiration for the world-spanning city came from 1940s science fiction works, especially
Isaac Asimov's
Trantor. Visually, it resembles the
Art Deco skyscrapers of
Manhattan.
Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) depicts Palpatine as intentionally having no clear line of succession, desiring either immortality or the destruction of the Empire.
Imperial Ruling Council Unwilling to embroil himself in the day-to-day running of the Galactic Empire, the Emperor leaves the mundane work to the Imperial Ruling Council (IRC), an advisory body with whom he confers on vital affairs of state. The group is made up of Imperial Advisors, "yes-men" who serve as ministers and counselors. The spokesman of the Imperial Ruling Council is the Grand Vizier Mas Amedda, who attends most of the Imperial Senate's sessions. Amedda functions as an intermediary for Palpatine, managing his schedule, screening his calls and contacting other Imperial dignitaries and officers on his behalf. The Imperial Ruling Council also keeps tabs on the progress of the Imperial Military and delivers news from Imperial High Command to the Emperor.
Imperial High Command The Emperor leaves the actual martial management to Imperial High Command (IHC), a central command structure that notably coordinates the Galactic Empire's war effort. The cabinet enjoys much power within the government's hierarchy, being responsible for: sanctioning weapons programs (such as the TIE Defender project), supervising the armed forces, forming strategies and organizing expansionary or pacification campaigns. Despite this, Imperial High Command was unable to take any serious action against rebel sympathizers with allies in the Imperial Senate. The group works closely with the Council of Moffs and notifies the Imperial Ruling Council on important developments. Imperial High Command's overseer is
Darth Vader - also a Sith Lord - who relentlessly pursues the fledging Rebel Alliance, in addition to quelling insurgencies and purging the last of the Jedi Order. As Emperor Palpatine's second-in-command, Vader is treated with almost the same deference as his master and has his personal battalion and armada- the 501st Legion and "Death Squadron", respectively - at his beck and call. Imperial High Command maintained a number of subdivisions, each charged with directing the naval, ground and intelligence assets of the Imperial Military. The most important of these were the Joint Chiefs, an executive group of senior officers who advised both the Emperor and the Commander-in-Chief on all martial-related matters. Other members included the Grand Admirals, a cadre of the 12 highest-ranking naval officers that helmed large Imperial fleets and policed Imperial Space;
Grand Admiral Thrawn, the commander of the 7th Fleet, is the most famous of their number.
Council of Moffs Aside from the Imperial Ruling Council and Imperial High Command, power resides in the hands of "
Praetorian administrators" (
planetary governors) that form the Council of Moffs. The cabinet is composed of 20 Moffs (
sector governors) and their superiors, the "Grand Moffs" (oversector governors), all of whom answer directly to the Emperor. The Moffs are senior officials who held the governorship over Administrators of minor provinces and commanded a Sector Fleet-size imperial armed forces at the sector level. The Grand Moffs are among the Galactic Empire's top figures, being on equal-footing with the Grand Vizier and the Commander-in-Chief and having been similarly appointed by the Emperor himself. The Council of Moffs works closely with Imperial High Command and is therefore able to dispose of the Imperial Military's assets to enforce the Emperor's authority in its "provinces". Governor
Wilhuff Tarkin is the most prominent Grand Moff, having suggested the creation of the role and thus holds the distinction of being the first.
Judiciary In the series
Andor, the Galactic Empire is depicted as forgoing
right to counsel,
right to a fair trial and other fundamental rights. It is authoritarian, arbitrary and cruel in its
presumption of guilt rule over ordinary people, particularly when it comes to certain agencies such as the Imperial Security Bureau (ISB), which acts as a
secret police force. In the latter part of the series, the Imperial Supreme Tribunal autocracy takes to retroactively extending the sentences of prisoners, moving prisoners around to different facilities after they are due to be released,
euthanizing labor camp prisoners when they become too ill to work, not permitting defendants in criminal cases to present a defense, and committing mass murder when its officers feel they are losing control of a situation. It also engages in
torture of subjects of interest, uses
agent provocateurs to instigate rebellion as justification for genocide, and carries out arbitrary
extrajudicial executions for political purposes. ISB agents are assigned to spy on political dissidents in the Imperial Senate, such as Senator
Mon Mothma.
Imperial Supreme Tribunal While a body with "Supreme Court" in the name existed, the Imperial Supreme Tribunal served as a rubber stamp for Imperial authority rather than an independent judiciary, its function drastically altered from its Republic predecessor. The entire Imperial court system was designed to prioritize control and the extraction of labor over traditional justice. Cases, especially politically sensitive ones, often had
extrajudicial punishment and predetermined outcomes in favor of the Empire. The Imperial Supreme Court was effectively overseen by the
Select Committee of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR), an organization dedicated to enforcing the Emperor's will and human-centric policies. The Imperial criminal justice system was headed by the
Procurator of Justice, who was in charge of the
Imperial Department of Justice and responsible for prosecuting political prisoners and administering sentences.
Imperial Security Bureau The Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) is the politically aligned and indoctrinated civilian intelligence branch of the Galactic Empire that is charged with matters of internal state security and law enforcement, being analogous to the
Gestapo, the
Schutzstaffel, the
CIA,
Mossad and the
KGB. The ISB was not a national agency, but a part of
COMPNOR (
Commission for the Preservation of the New Order); Palpatine's own political party. Because the ISB is so directly connected and fanatically loyal to Palpatine, there are no checks and balances to their power as they did whatever Palpatine wanted them to do. Consisting of several supervisors overseeing multiple sectors, they are charged with matters of dissidents, counter-terrorism, criminal investigation,
internal affairs, state security, state-sponsored propaganda and ensuring the political loyalty of citizens to the Galactic Empire. Each supervisor had at least one ISB attendant assigned to them that helped them do their duties. Veteran Colonel Wullf Yularen acts as ISB's main figurehead and spokesman, answering to the likes of Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader and Amedda. Towards the end of the Galactic Empire's reign after the death of Emperor Palpatine, ISB officers were entrusted with carrying out
Operation Cinder. When that operation fails and the empire collapses, some former ISB officers, such as
Moff Gideon, become warlords and part of the Imperial remnants.
Inquisitorius Outside the formal
chain of command, the Galactic Empire's reins are
de facto held by the Sith, a cult of Force-wielders – called Sith Lords – that call on the dark side in their plot to dominate the galaxy and destroy the Jedi. Both Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are part of this cult, although this is known to or guessed by only a very few figures in the regime's upper echelons, such as Governor Tarkin. The Imperial Inquisition, or Inquisitorius, acts as an extension of the Sith Order; but are not "true Sith". Its Force-attuned operatives, the Inquisitors, are routinely given control of Imperial Military assets to hunt down the Jedi that survived the initial purge. They are above the law and have complete discretion as to the methods used to accomplish their mission. They exploit Jedi compassion by whatever means necessary, often holding entire population centers hostage. They also hunt and abduct Force-sensitive children to be brainwashed into the Emperor's service. Inquisitorius work either alone or in small groups according to the nature of a particular task. The Inquisitors' lack of proper rank within the armed forces, as well as their reliance on "occult" ways, earn the ire of the standard officers. Members often get access to prototype equipment before they are introduced into the larger Imperial Military, such as the TIE Advanced v1 and an early prototype of the TIE interceptor. The Inquisitorius was founded by the Emperor and is governed by the Commander-in-Chief, but the agency is virtually led by a Grand Inquisitor who defers to both. At some point before
A New Hope, the group essentially became defunct, with almost all members either defecting, getting killed by other Force users or suffered punishment by Vader himself. Some former members survived well after the dissolution of the organization, with one known member, Marrok, who was known as the First Brother during his service in the Inquisitorius, being active during the New Republic era as a mercenary before being killed by
Ahsoka Tano.
Military Notable officers •
Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, thus Palpatine's second-in-command, until his death in the
Battle of Endor. •
Mas Amedda – Grand Vizier of the Imperial Ruling Council and vice-chair of the Imperial Senate, later installed by Gallius Rax as puppet leader following Palpatine's death in
Aftermath: Life Debt. Amedda formally surrenders the Galactic Empire to the New Republic in ''
Aftermath: Empire's End''. •
Wilhuff Tarkin – Grand Moff of the Oversector Outer and commander of the
Death Star, until his death in the
Battle of Yavin. •
Thrawn – Grand Admiral of the 7th Fleet of the Imperial Navy, until being MIA upon his defeat in the liberation of Lothal. Thrawn was stranded on the extragalactic planet of Peridea, where he remained until 9 ABY and escaped with the help of Morgan Elsbeth. •
Orson Krennic – Head of Imperial Weapons Division and director of the Death Star, until his death in the
Battle of Scarif. Krennic was also the Director of Advanced Weapons research.
Tarkin doctrine The
Tarkin doctrine, named after
Grand Moff Tarkin, is a
military doctrine of using fear through overt displays of overwhelming power to keep control over the galaxy. The plan presented by Tarkin himself to
Palpatine in 18 BBY that outlined the Empire's goal and structure: bringing order to the galaxy and restoring
rule of law to sectors overtaken by piracy and
organized crime, ending destructive conflicts through
grand strategy, a plan for maximizing social control and
propaganda, maintaining economic order and increasing security in the Galactic Empire. Tarkin believed the chief factor that contributed most to the demise of the Republic was not, in fact,
the war, but rampant self-interest, which left the body politic feckless and corrupt. The plan which Palpatine ultimately had implemented in its entirety contained three main principles: territorial consolidation, rapid communication, and
coercive diplomacy. Tarkin's concept was that rule could be established and maintained "through fear of force rather than force itself", and he believed grand displays of power—when combined with oppressive means of terrorizing communities—could suppress dissent and crush any would-be rebellion. This Doctrine became the Empire's core military doctrine of
peacekeeping,
internal security,
counter-insurgency, and
state terrorism-philosophy. The instrument of this power is the military, which includes Imperial Stormtroopers, a massive fleet of 25,000
Star Destroyers, at least 10 Executor-Class Super Star Destroyers, and the
Death Star, a
moon-sized
superweapon capable of destroying entire planets. Plans for the Death Star first appear (in
universe chronology) in
Attack of the Clones and construction begins at the end of
Revenge of the Sith. Summarized measures set forth by the Tarkin Doctrine: • Establish "Oversectors" which contain tumultuous systems; to monitor and react to rebellious activities within those systems. Oversectors would be formed without regard for the borders of standard sectors and would receive more forces than other regions of the Empire. This Imperial presence would be designed to stop small rebel factions before they could become a larger established threat. An average of three Sector Groups would be deployed in an Oversector. • Assign command of each Oversector to a single individual who reports directly to the Emperor, in order to eliminate any delays created by political opportunism by Imperial advisors. • Improve communication resources and Imperial response time by placing modified HoloNet transceivers (cannibalized from existing HoloNet transceivers) aboard each flagship of every Sector Group within an Oversector command. Place similar facilities aboard the Emperor's flagship and in Imperial City on Imperial Centre (formally Coruscant). • Control unruly portions of the galaxy through a fear of force rather than force itself. Through the combination of superior coordination of multiple Oversector groups and the control of information (news media) an impression of overwhelming force will be installed within the citizenry, thereby instilling the idea that resistance is futile. • Continue to research and develop new and more powerful starships and weapons designed to inspire fear in the resistant systems. Present the citizen with a weapon so powerful, so immense as to defy all conceivable attack against it, a weapon invulnerable and invincible in battle, that shall become a symbol for the Empire. This weapon must possess a power great enough to dispatch an entire system. Only a handful or one of these weapons would be required to accomplish this task.
Imperial Navy The Imperial Naval Command (INC), also referred to as the Imperial Starfleet, is the foremost military arm of the Galactic Empire in charge of maintaining security, peace and order in the galaxy. Led by Darth Vader, it absorbed the military forces of the Galactic Republic after Emperor Palpatine's declaration of the New Order. At its peak, the Imperial Navy fields millions of warships, including an estimated 25,000 Star Destroyers, fulfilling the Emperor's will throughout the galaxy. The Empire's central warship cadre is well structured and uniformed, but the Imperial Navy suffers against strike craft, largely due to the inadequacies of its own starfighters and point defense. The Empire's focus on size, firepower, and terror comes at the expense of a well-balanced fleet. After its defeat at the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire splits up into warring factions, and the Imperial Starfleet along with it. While much of the remnants of the Imperial Navy are later reunited under impressive Imperial commanders, the military organization ceases to exist shortly after the death of the Emperor. Specific responsibilities of the Imperial Navy include defending Imperial citizens from space-based threats (such as pirates, smugglers and rebel contingents), enforcing Imperial will, and overseeing commerce through customs and blockade operations. The Imperial Navy also performs orbital bombardments and transports major ground force deployments, supporting them with space, orbital, and aerial support. Imperial Navy officers wear the same standard uniform that their Army counterparts use but is colored grey, and both services use colored chest plaques to denote rank.
Imperial Starfighter Corps The Imperial Starfighter Corps (ISC) was the starfighter pilot branch of the Galactic Empire. Although the Corps was a component of the Navy, most pilots were assigned to ground operations with the Imperial Army. Imperial starfighters include cheap and lightly-defended mass-produced models like the TIE (Twin Ion Engine) fighter, TIE interceptor, TIE bomber, and TIE Brute, which do not include hyperdrives or deflector shields. Other high-end TIE models also saw service, many of which are experimental and break away from the Empire's "quantity over quality" mentality regarding starfighters and capital ship-based space combat doctrine by adding features such as deflector shields and hyperdrives, among them the TIE Advanced v1, TIE Advanced x1, TIE Reaper, TIE Avenger, TIE Defender and its Elite variant, and TIE striker. The Corps were scattered after the Battle of Endor (4 ABY).
Imperial Army The Imperial Army was the ground based force. Imperial Army enlisted soldiers wore gray uniforms with a mandarin collar and four pockets along with chest pieces similar to Stormtroopers but in black. Corporals displayed their rank on one of their shoulder pauldrons with a single white diagonal stripe. They also wore a gray Imperial kepi or Imperial Combat Helmet.
Imperial Stormtrooper Corps Imperial Stormtrooper Corps (ISC) are elite corps of rapid response all-environment
shock troops—organized like the
U.S. Marine Corps with their own separate divisions. The Stormtroopers operate in conjunction with the Army Ground Troopers and Navy Marine Troopers—who were used as garrison forces—to reinforce and hold defensive positions until the regular military arrived. When not in their signature white armor, stormtrooper officers wear black uniforms.
Galactic Civil War After the formation of the Empire and the purge of the Jedi, Palpatine declares
martial law throughout the galaxy. Those in hiding or attempting to either flee from or oppose the New Imperial Order, are subject to persecution or death. This is the start of the bloody
decades-long Galactic Civil War fought between the Empire and the
Rebel Alliance. As portrayed in the live-action series
Andor, one single moment in Galactic history completely changed the Empire's policy towards its citizens and therefore changed its relationship with them. In 5 BBY, on the relatively unremarkable planet of Aldhani, a small rebel team managed to infiltrate the local Imperial depository, stealing a decent portion of the sector payroll. This created a massive Imperial overreaction, increasing their security spending and draconian law enforcement policies, making all future rebellious activity even more costly and difficult, which is exactly what the mastermind of the heist
Luthen Rael wanted.
The Two Death Stars As portrayed in the animated series
Star Wars Rebels and
The Bad Batch, the Empire explores ways to weaponize Force-sensitive
kyber crystals, which are sacred to the Jedi and are at the core of every
lightsaber. and leads his
stormtroopers to attack on the rebel base on
Hoth, but the rebels escape. Vader would continue to systematically and ruthlessly dismantle Alliance assets, and to hunt for Luke in the process, forcing Alliance survivors to abandon all static bases and regroup with
Alliance HQ and remain nomadic. In
Return of the Jedi, after four years of conflict and near constant harassments by Vader's forces, the Alliance achieves a decisive victory over the Empire during the
Battle of Endor. In the film's climactic battle, the Rebellion destroys the second Death Star and a number of capital ships that contain a great portion of the Imperial Navy's highest-ranking officers. During this battle, Vader redeems himself by sacrificing his life to kill Palpatine in order to save his son, Luke Skywalker. A year after the Battle of Endor, the bolstered Rebellion
defeats the weakened Empire during the
Battle of Jakku and formally establishes the
New Republic.
New Republic Era By the time of
The Mandalorian, set five years after the Battle of Endor, the Galactic Empire no longer exists as an official government or a major power and is essentially a
failed state. Its former leaders who are now
warlords that represent several different
rump states, are
competing with each other,
as well as the New Republic over the
power vacuum left behind. One Imperial remnant established a base on the planet Nevarro, where
Mandalorian bounty hunter
Din Djarin was hired to acquire an asset, later revealed to be a Force-sensitive infant named
Grogu. Djarin abandoned his job and decided to protect the child, making him an enemy of the Imperial warlord
Moff Gideon and his army of mercenary stormtroopers. Djarin later returned to Nevarro, reuniting with his allies
Greef Karga and
Cara Dune, as well as an unnamed Mythrol, to take down an Imperial facility to eradicate the Empire's presence on the planet. The group soon discovered that it was housing Imperial experiments, using blood rich in
midichlorians obtained from Grogu. The group succeeded in taking down the base. Gideon was informed of the developments while overseeing a unit of enhanced droids known as darktroopers, who would later help him capture Grogu. Djarin led a mission to rescue Grogu, assisted by several allies including Dune,
Boba Fett,
Fennec Shand, and Mandalorian warrior
Bo-Katan Kryze. The group boarded Gideon's command ship and subdued him. Djarin turned Grogu over to Luke Skywalker, who took down the Moff's darktroopers.
Successor The most successful remnants of the Empire reformed as the
First Order, led by
Supreme Leader Snoke and former Imperial officers. They become a major faction in the galaxy in
The Force Awakens and face a reformed Rebel Alliance called the Resistance. The First Order rises to power through the use of Starkiller Base, a planet-converted superweapon that later destroys the Hosnian system, the location of the New Republic's capital and therefore the
empire reclaim authority over the galaxy. Starkiller Base is destroyed by the Resistance in
The Force Awakens. In the sequel
The Last Jedi, however, First Order forces draw the Resistance out of hiding and wipe out a majority of their fleet. During the battle, Snoke is killed by his apprentice
Kylo Ren, who assumes the title of Supreme Leader. In
The Rise of Skywalker, the final film in
the sequel trilogy, the First Order allies itself with the
Sith Eternal, a cult led by Palpatine, who had transferred his essence into a cloned body and formerly positioned himself to control the First Order over Snoke, a
puppet ruler. The cult is stationed on the isolated Sith planet of Exegol. Palpatine offers Ren, who had tracked him to the planet, control of the Sith Eternal's fleet, the Final Order, in exchange for killing the young Jedi
Rey, Palpatine's own granddaughter. Ren initially accepts the assignment, but later forsakes the dark side after a duel with Rey in the wreckage of the second Death Star. With Ren's defection, Palpatine turns command over to Allegiant General
Enric Pryde, previously an Imperial officer. With help from the spirit of Luke Skywalker, Rey eventually makes her way to Exegol, guiding the Resistance away to the planet to take down the Sith Eternal forces, including the Sith fleet. With help from a redeemed Ren and the spirits of Jedi past, she resists Palpatine's promises of power and turns his own
Force lightning against him, destroying the Sith Lord once and for all. The Resistance, with help from their allies across the galaxy, destroys the remaining Sith forces and prevents an establishment of a new Sith Empire. Without reinforcements of the Sith, people across the galaxy rises up against the First Order for good.
Legends With the 2012 acquisition of
Lucasfilm by
The Walt Disney Company, most of the licensed
Star Wars Expanded Universe material was rebranded as
Star Wars Legends and declared
non-canon to the franchise on April 25, 2014.
Thrawn trilogy In
Timothy Zahn's "
Thrawn trilogy" of novels –
Heir to the Empire (1991),
Dark Force Rising (1992), and
The Last Command (1993) – an army of former Imperials, led by
Grand Admiral Thrawn, attempt to overthrow the New Republic and install a dictatorship known as the Empire of the Hand. The backstory of the series explains that following their defeat at the Battle of Endor, the galactic sectors that are still under Imperial control, were represented by various ununited
warlords, that were leading each
Imperial faction of multiple
military juntas that
fight each other in a conflict known as the Imperial Civil War. All the while
resuming the Galactic Civil War with the Rebellion's successor, the New Republic, for control of the galaxy for years until mostly uniting under Grand Admiral Thrawn. By the time of
The Last Command, Thrawn has nearly defeated the New Republic, but they claim victory in a last-ditch effort, and Thrawn is killed by his own bodyguard, shattering the Empire's unity.
Agent of the Empire Agent of the Empire is a 10-issue comic book series published by
Dark Horse Comics from 2011 to 2013. It was written by
John Ostrander and illustrated by
Stephane Roux, and is set three years before the original
Star Wars film. Two five-issue story arcs follow an Imperial
secret agent, and feature characters such as
Han Solo,
Princess Leia and
Boba Fett. Both arcs were collected in
trade paperback volumes.
Jedi Prince In the
Jedi Prince novel series, a group of impostors calling themselves the Prophets of the Dark Side install a three-eyed
mutant named
Trioculus as Emperor by claiming that he is Palpatine's son, reforming the Empire (as Trioculus's Empire). By the end of the series, Palpatine's true son, Triclops, helps the New Republic defeat this new enemy.
Dark Empire In the
Dark Empire comic book series, Palpatine is reborn in a
clone body and unites most of the scattered remnants of the Empire (forming the Dark Empire), hoping to retake control of the galaxy. By the sequel, ''
Empire's End'', he is defeated and destroyed once and for all. Following the final death of Palpatine, Luke Skywalker, influenced by the force ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi, starts the New Jedi Order in an ancient temple on
Yavin 4, which had undone the Emperor's purge of the Old Jedi Order 28 years earlier at the rise of the Galactic Empire.
Jedi Academy trilogy In the
Jedi Academy trilogy, an Imperial admiral named
Daala commandeers the remainder of the Imperial Navy (the Crimson Empire) and mounts a ferocious assault on the New Republic. She nearly succeeds in taking over the galaxy, but is foiled by New Republic pilots
Wedge Antilles and
Lando Calrissian in the final entry,
Champions of the Force. A year later she would arrange the assassination of the rival Imperial warlords to unify the feuding Imperial factions into the Imperial Remnant and bring an end to the Imperial Civil War.
Darksaber In the 1995 novel
Darksaber, Daala, frustrated with the Imperial warlords in the Core fighting and bickering amongst themselves, orchestrates the warlords' deaths and unites and becomes the leader of the remaining Imperial forces. After being defeated in battle once again by the New Republic, she resigns and selects
Gilad Pellaeon (originally in the
Thrawn trilogy) as the new leader, where he becomes Grand Admiral Pellaeon. At the end of the novel, he signs a
peace treaty with the New Republic representative Ponc Gavrisom and finally ends the Galactic Civil War.
New Jedi Order By the time of the
New Jedi Order series, the remaining Imperial Remnant is no longer at war with the New Republic but is now a peaceful state of a mere eight neighboring galactic sectors. Bastion is the capital of a now
oligarchy state, rather than a
bureaucracy. The former enemies then become allies against the
invading Yuuzhan Vong. A few years later, the Remnant help the Galactic Alliance fight an
assimilating insect species known as the Killiks. A few years after that, the Imperial Remnant become a
third party in the
Second Galactic Civil War and its post-war
insurgency. Eventually, they make peace with the Alliance and Confederation. All three of these are represented by former Imperial commanders.
Legacy The
Star Wars: Legacy comic book series, set 127 years after the original
Star Wars film, explains that, during a
civil war, the New Galactic Empire known as the Fel Empire declares war on the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances (Galactic Alliance), the successor state of the New Republic, after 83 years of a
cold war that began in 44 ABY. This conflict begins the Sith-Imperial War, which after three years leads to the eventual defeat of the Galactic Alliance and the
Galactic Empire asserting its domination over the galaxy once again in 130 ABY. A few months later, the Sith
overthrows the Fel Empire. The Sith Lord
Darth Krayt, the leader of the One Sith, usurps the throne and forces Emperor Roan Fel to take refuge in the fortress planet of Bastion. In 138 ABY, the Galactic Alliance Remnant led by Admiral Gar Stazi, Fel's forces known as the Empire-in-exile led by Empress Marasiah Fel, and the New Jedi Order led by Jedi Master K'Krukk unite against Krayt's empire and eventually destroy it in the Battle of
Coruscant, after a grand total of 157 years of its existence. This was opposed to Palpatine's promising
10,000-year imperial rule to the Galactic Senate, but the empire had still reached
longevity by the time it reached its ultimate fate none the less. The three united factions form a new galactic government called the Galactic Federation Triumvirate. The One Sith, led by Darth Wredd, remains at large and wages a war against the GFT. One year later, the former Empire-in-exile works with the other two factions and killing Wredd. Only a few Sith had survive, including their new leader Darth Nihl, and presumably (but incorrectly) dissolving the One Sith and the Sith religion itself for good. The next year, the GFT defeats the secular alliances of the One Sith and in the aftermath of that conflict, the galaxy after 172 years of Palpatine's influence, enters an era of peace and unity. Therefore,
the galaxy began its
Second Golden Age for the first time, since between the end of the New Sith Wars and the start of the
Clone Wars. ==See also==